Platform

THE FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY IS a revolutionary, socialist feminist
organization, dedicated to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine
workers’ democracy that will guarantee full economic, social, political, and
legal equality to women, people of color, gays, and all who are exploited,
oppressed, and repelled by the profit system and its offshoot — imperialism.

FOR REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALISM The working class is international and bound by
global abuse. It must liberate itself through socialism. We support revolution on all
fronts and seek to transform it into world socialism, which alone can defeat capitalism.
We stress that global democratic struggles -- for national liberation, for race and sex
liberation -- are inseparably bound up with workers’ struggles in every country, and can
ultimately achieve victory only in conjunction with international socialist revolution.

FOR UNION DEMOCRACY The working class has the strategic power, numbers, need, and
opportunity to effect a socialist transformation of society. But first the trade unions
must be freed from the stranglehold of the class-collaborationist bureaucrats and from
dependence on the twin political parties of big business. Internal union democracy, class
struggle principles, independent political action in the form of an anti-capitalist Labor
Party, and an end to internal racism, sexism, and heterosexism are on the order of the day.

FOR RACIAL/NATIONAL FREEDOM The struggles of oppressed minorities and immigrants
against bigotry and intensified exploitation objectively challenge the basic core of
the capitalist system. The resistance of people of color and immigrants, who suffer
a dual oppression, spurs all other sectors of the working class to advanced political
consciousness and militancy. We stand for immediate and unconditional economic,
political, and social equality for Blacks, Chicanos, Asian Americans, Native Americans,
and Puerto Ricans, and endorse the demand for self-determination by oppressed and
indigenous nations the world over. We advocate the collaboration of organizations of
people of color with the revolutionary movement as the most realistic and historically
validated alternative to the dead ends of separatism or reformist integration. The
revolution depends upon massive involvement and leadership by people of color.

FOR WOMEN'S LIBERATION We organize for the total emancipation of women on every
level of life. The multiple afflictions of women -- as an oppressed sex, workers, people
of color, lesbians -- propel them into militancy within every social movement, thereby
laying the basis for unifying all the mass movements. Women, particularly workingclass
women of color, are playing an increasingly vanguard role, thanks to the rise of the
autonomous women's movement and women's caucuses within unions and all political
parties.

FOR LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENDER EQUALITY The revolt of sexual minorities against
sexual repression and sex-role stereotyping is a key ingredient of the fight for women's
equality and is equally revolutionary. Revolutionary socialism is the logical road for
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender people who stand apart from the bourgeois nuclear
family and who wish to end the long, bloody centuries of persecution and terror. Because
of their special oppression, lesbians are a particularly militant component of all social
movements.

FOR UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS Among the most hapless and vulnerable victims of
capitalism are children, elders, the disabled, and prisoners -- anyone who is not a
profitable worker. We demand a world where all people have the inalienable right to
security, care, love, and unhampered opportunity and growth.

FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SANITY The world's natural riches must be used and safeguarded by
the people, not by the corporations that exhaust resources for profit and destroy worker
safety and health. Nuclear energy threatens to maim or annihilate future generations.
Technology must be used wisely and humanely to preserve the earth and its creatures.

FOR A MASS WORKINGCLASS PARTY History has proven that only a thoroughly democratic
and centralized vanguard party can lead the proletariat and its many allies to power. The
FSP, a product of the living tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky, aspires to
become a mass organization capable of providing direction for the coming revolution.
Through independent growth, revolutionary regroupment, and other forms of fusion, we
are confident of our eventual merger with the dynamic masses who will sweep every
obstacle out of their path and ascend to the socialist future.

by Kristina Lee

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